ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50286
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:50 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL779 |
| MSN: | SR-V |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | end of Ossenkapelweg road, Handel, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Ludford Magna |
Took off from RAF Ludford Magna at 22:55 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rheinpreussen synthetic oil installation at Meerbeck in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Kurt Boldt of the 8./NJG 2, who was flying Junkers Ju 88 G-1 4R+PS from Volkel airfield.
The Lanc crashed roughly 1 km SE of Handel, 12 km SSE of Uden. Seven, including Sgt Cooper who was the specialist operator, rest at Eindhoven in Woensel General Cemetery, while Sgt Hanon RCAF is buried in Groesbeek Canadian War cemetery:
Fg Off J A Harvey RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J P Irvine (KIA)
Sgt W Osadchy RCAF (KIA)
Sgt I M Hanon RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J L Sime (KIA)
Sgt W J Cooper (KIA)
Sgt A Wilson (KIA)
Sgt F R Loveridge (KIA)
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3888&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 343.
http://aircrewremembered.com/harvey-jack.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 January 1944 | DV308 | 101 Sqn RAF | 4 | near Grandrieu, Sivry-Rance, Hainaut |  |
w/o |
| 13 August 1944 | PB258 | 101 Sqn RAF | 2 | Barver, Niedersachsen |  |
w/o |
| 3 February 1945 | PB457 | 101 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire, England |  |
w/o |
| 23 February 1945 | PA237 | 101 Sqn RAF | 7 | Gültstein southeast of Herrenberg | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-Aug-2011 00:44 | trailrunner | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Narrative] |
| 27-Dec-2011 05:00 | Uli Elch | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:31 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 24-Jun-2016 12:49 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Oct-2018 05:25 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 23-Oct-2020 07:22 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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